Today we decided to do a hop on hop off bus tour for a change, our first stop was the colosseum and some ancient ruines we spent a while looking around and admiring what was left and what it would have been like back in the day, the colosseum looked smaller than what I thought but amazing. There were so many people there and so many people trying to sell you stuff we made sure we were had our belonging close as we heard there would be a lot of pickpockets. Af...

Today we headed of to Rome we decided to first send our few things home that we had bought as they were taking up a little room in our bags, so our hotel dropped us to the post office and helped us get a ticket from the machine, Brett Waited out side as it was so busy reminded me of waiting for Medicare or maybe centre link (I haven't had to do that , but imagine it would be like today ) 1 hour later my number got called and I then had to try to explain what I w...

Today we headed on a bus tour out to explore Tuscany the tour went to Four areas of Tuscany with wine tasting just red wines and some sampling of cheese, salami, olive oil and proccetta. The first two towns were really pretty with old buildings the 1 st town had about 5000 people but the 2nd tiny with only 48 people. We then went Siena where we did a walking tour and had lunch, we got to go into a big church with lots if nice art work and marble art. After that ...

Today we went and visited Florence we are staying in Signa 15 mins out from Florence by train it is a nice quiet area and has a nice local feel. We got to Florence late and missed our walking tour so we decided to do it our self we circled the top sights on the map and then just walked around we think we saw the major sights. There was a lot of galleries, museums and church's which we are getting a but over so after we finished looking we headed home, we found a...

Today we slept in then caught the train to Pisa to see the leaning tower of Pisa, we didn't want to stay in Pisa so we checked our bags into the luggage storage rooms at the train station and walked to the leaning tower of Pisa. ( we only heard about the luggage storage a few days earlier from a girl we met, I'm glad we did as we were planning on taking our backpacks) We got to the tour lots of people were there we took a few photos sat and admired for a little w...